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In this segmented interview Jerry Catalano discusses how he became a GRAMMYs​ member, how the Chicago music industry has changed since the 60s, and why he quit playing guitar for 15 years. Hear him play his song "Let It Go," which was performed on Conan O'Brien Presents: Team Coco​. Jerry also mentions a lot of useful things artists will find helpful

Today, rap music is filled with messages that tell it’s consumers what to buy and how much one must spend in order to be cool, hip, accepted, successful, and one of the new popular go-to words, “relevant.”

The lack of planning done by Prince for his $250 million fortune offers a cautionary tale about the importance of estate planning. Princes assets will be distributed in ways he may not have wanted, and the estate will owe a $100 million tax payment to the federal government that could have been mitigated. Trusts could have averted the tax hit and ensured that Princes assets were distributed according to his wishes.

In this April 20, 2016 episode, an interview with Jerry Catalano, CPA, of Catalano, Caboor in Lombard, IL. Jerry is a singer and guitarist and specializes in working with musicians, writers, filmmakers, and artists and is known as The Music CPA. He is also the singer and guitarist on today’s featured music from the band,

Out of all the musicians who try to make it in the music industry, very few ever will. This is because the majority of them spend their time doing things that won’t actually accomplish significant success in the music business. As a result, most musicians will become very frustrated and quit pursuing their musical dreams.

Here are six reasons why you have not become a professional musician yet, and what you should do to immediately move your career forward.

Channel TV21 on the dates below. Please DVR it if you can and please let your music and entertainment colleagues in the City of Chicago know about it as well. In the interview I talk about music royalty audits, IL Film Production Tax Credit and music accounting. Please share the heck out of this!

Is it true that with the proliferation of streaming, it’s harder for artists to make a living? There’s no denying that music fans are streaming more and downloading less. Plus with so many sites, platforms, and channels, it’s a full time job for artists to add their music to every distribution outlet to make sure their music is heard. And even then, how do artists know that a “listen” translates to significant revenue when album sales are declining?

When you build a system for classifying music that reacts to cultural and acoustic information, some fairly strange-sounding clusters of music appear. These genres emerge based on how it sounds, how people describe music, and how they listen to it.

Let’s explore the most strangely-named music genres on Spotify. These are the secret rain forest dwellers and deep undersea creatures of the genre world.

Legal author Steve Gordon and Robert Seigel discuss two different forms of agreement: composer deals for the creation of music to be used throughout a movie, and an agreement for the recording and licensing of a previously written but unreleased single song for a film. If you are a filmmaker seeking previously recorded and commercially released music, you may be interested in reading Part II of my book, The Future of the Music Business, which includes a comprehensive discussion on how to clear ....

You can shut down an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. But can you shut down a totally decentralized, BitTorrent-powered streaming music application?

That’s an urgent question for major labels and groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which so far don’t seem to have a solution for Aurous, the music industry’s next major menace. Aurous, essentially the Popcorn Time equivalent for music, is now planning a major release on October 10th, with a svelt....

Next time youre looking for something to watch, consider the following five films, which can teach artists from any genre not just popular music history, but also lessons they can apply to their craft.

Getting your music into film and TV can be a golden ticket for building momentum for your music career. Yet that same momentum is needed to grab the attention of music supervisors -- some of the busiest, most influential players in the industry. We asked our friends at the Guild of Music Supervisors to give us one piece of advice about getting your music into their world of film, TV, advertising, trailers and video games.

This portion of our website will offer clients the opportunity to post a schedule of gigs, upcoming tours, new releases, and a list of available albums, videos, or other information about the group. You tell us what’s going on and we will help you tell the world.

We encourage all of our entertainers to send an email to JerryC@TheMusicCPA.com to let us know where they will be playing, singing, dancing, and entertaining. If you are a club, please send us your schedule of events a....